NEWS for rsync version 2.5.7

Protocol: 26 (unchanged)

Changes since version 2.5.6:

ENHANCEMENTS:

- Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0.

Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the

--*-from options. (Wayne Davison)

BUG FIXES:

- Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and

multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir.

(Wayne Davison)

- Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN.

INTERNAL:

- Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped

supporting. (J.W. Schultz)

- Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison)

NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release

Protocol: 26 (unchanged)

Changes since version 2.5.5:

ENHANCEMENTS:

* The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)

* The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael

Zimmerman)

* Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the

specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)

server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such

as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul)

* The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the

destination field.

* If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",

rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)

* New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that

unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.

(J.W. Schultz)

* Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an

rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)

* Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon

Middleton)

* Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"

and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)

* Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line

terminations. (J.W. Schultz)

* Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.

(Dave Dykstra)

BUG FIXES:

* Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John

L. Allen, Martin Pool)

* Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not

in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents

timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)

* Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)

* Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)

* Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that

contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file

list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison)

* Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple

dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)

* Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child

processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing

an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)

* Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely

broken. (Dave Dykstra)

* Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.

(Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie)

* Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories

when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)

* Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara)

INTERNAL:

* Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin

Pool, Nelson Beebe)

* Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)

* More test cases. (Martin Pool)

* Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)

* Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.

(Jos Backus)

* Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this

means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)